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Robin Schoenthaler aims to bring clarity to our chaos and maybe meaning to the madness. Through thoughtful essays, articles and stories, she engages her audience on topics ranging from cancer and Covid to parenting and purpose.

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Robin Schoenthaler, MD is a cancer doctor, mother, writer, traveler, and storyteller. Raised and reared in California, Robin moved to Boston in 1992 for a long career as a cancer doctor working with patients at Massachusetts General and Emerson Hospitals. During that time she also became a solo parent, a writer, a better friend and family member, and a global citizen. Through the stories of thousands of patients and readers, she has developed a unique perspective on medicine, parenting, pandemics, being human and the circle of life.

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COVID UPDATE – March 9, 2020

by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Mar 9, 2020 | COVID

For now I am going to make myself the self-appointed translator of mis-information to facts about COVID-19. We are about to move into a catastrophic health care crisis and I will periodically post updates. This is not about blame, or controversies, or politics and...